It'd strengthen the Defenders to have their final member be from even lower on the economic ladder than our working-class heroes
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Have Danny be established as having lived as a homeless do-gooder with no ID and no money for quite some time
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Maybe long enough that K'un-Lun now feels like a dream, and even he is starting to question whether his memories are real
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He has superpowers but ones only useful for beating people up and that's not useful for making a living unless you're a bad guy
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And he's still clinging to the moral code of K'un-Lun despite it all because it's his way of asserting that no, he isn't crazy
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Think about if someone like Matt or Jessica actually KNOWS Danny as "that crazy homeless guy from the park"
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Note: none of this directly has to do with whitewashing but you'll note the stakes get a lot higher if Danny is visibly "foreign"
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Imagine a critical scene with the cops dragging away an Asian guy with a stilted accent who insists that in his youth he lived on Park Ave
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Part of what's obnoxious abt this version is he's homeless but he's a rich kid playing at being homeless who wouldn't (doesn't) last a week
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Part of what made the beats in the Iron Fist comics work was this contradiction that he was theoretically a 1%er but had seen a ton of shit
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Have him and Luke bond over spending a large portion of their lives being terrified of getting picked up by the cops
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But Danny unlike Luke showed up without any job skills or friends or cultural competence for 2017 New York
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(AGAIN: This doesn't require Danny be non-white but the optics sure are better if he isn't)
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